...Date... AGE Event
1854/--/-- -1 - A commercial treaty is signed between the U.S. and Japan, ending Japanese isolation.
1854/--/-- -1 - American writer and naturalist Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden.
1854/--/-- -1 - An Anglo-French-Turkish expeditionary force lands at Sevastopol in the Crimea.
1854/--/-- -1 - Britain and France declare war on Russia, beginning the Crimean War.
1854/--/-- -1 - Nebraska and Kansas Territories
1854/--/-- -1 - Pope Pius IX proclaims the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary.
1854/--/-- -1 - Raphaelite artist Holman Hunt paints The Scapegoat.
1854/--/-- -1 - Republican Party formed for abolition of slavery
1854/--/-- -1 - Smith & Wesson invent revolver
1854/--/-- -1 - The Allied armies defeat the Russians at the Battle of Inkerman.
1854/--/-- -1 - The British grant independence to the Orange Free State in South Africa.
1854/--/-- -1 - The Charge of the Light Brigade is made by the British during the Battle of Balaklava.
1854/--/-- -1 - The Kansas-Nebraska Act reopens the controversy over the spread of slavery.
1854/--/-- -1 - The Republican party is formed after the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
1854/--/-- -1 - Upper half of Indian Territory becomes part of Kansas Territory
1854/02/24 -1 *** Wood, George [Great Uncle] - Died Bone Cave, Van Buren, TN Bone Cave, Van Buren, TN Cone Cave, Van Buren, TN
1854/06/22 0 *** Ewing, Thomas Wood - Born to Ewing, Jesse and Wood, Mariba (Ewing) Albany, Clinton, Kentucky
1855/--/-- 0 - British photographer Roger Fenton documents the Crimean War.
1855/--/-- 0 - Florence Nightingale reforms hygienic standards in Crimean hospitals.
1855/--/-- 0 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow publishes The Songs of Hiawatha.
1855/--/-- 0 - Lord Palmerston becomes prime minister of Great Britain for the first time.
1855/--/-- 0 - Matthew Fontaine Maury publishes The Physical Geography of the Sea.
1855/--/-- 0 - Mexican dictator Santa Anna is overthrown.
1855/--/-- 0 - Nicholas I, Emperor of Russia dies; he is succeeded by his son Alexander II.
1855/--/-- 0 - Robert Browning publishes his poetry collection Men and Women.
1855/--/-- 0 - Scottish explorer David Livingstone discovers the Victoria Falls in Africa.
1855/--/-- 0 - The Allies occupy the Russian fortress at Sevastapol in the Crimea.
1855/--/-- 0 - The first formal ice hockey game is played in Kingston, Ontario.
1855/--/-- 0 - Walt Whitman publishes his first book of poetry, the Leaves of Grass.
1856/--/-- 1 - A new Opium War begins between China, Britain and France.
1856/--/-- 1 - English chemist William Perkin discovers synthetic dyes.
1856/--/-- 1 - The Treaty of Paris ends the Crimean War.
1856/--/-- 1 - The first Neanderthaler (prehistoric human) skeleton is discovered in Germany.
1856/--/-- 1 - Victor Hugo writes Les Miserables during his exile from France.
1856/01/19 1 *** Ewing, Mary Ann Eliza [Sister] - Born to Ewing, Jesse and Wood, Mariba (Ewing) Albany, Clinton, Kentucky
1856/07/27 2 *** Ewing, Pernetta Jane [Sister] - Died Albany, Clinton, Kentucky Albany, Clinton, Kentucky
1856/07/29 2 *** Ewing, Mary Ann Eliza [Sister] - Died Albany, Clinton, Kentucky Albany, Clinton, Kentucky Peolia Church Cemetery, Albany, Kentucky
1856/08/02 2 *** Ewing, Thomas Wood - Died Peolia Church Cemetery, Albany, Kentucky
In 1854 Transportation was by:
Foot
Horse
Bicycle
Train
Steamboat
In 1854 Communications was by:
Word of Mouth
Post Office
Telegraph
In 1854 Food Preparation was by:
Wood
In 1854 Entertainment was by:
Social Intercourse
Organized Sports
Travel
Professional Sports
Movies
Radio
Television
Theme parks
Computer
In 1854 Health Care was by:
Operations
Anesthetic
X-Rays
MRI
In 1854 War Making was by:
Calvary
gun
Artillery
Submarine
In 1854 Navigation was by:
Stars & Maps
Compass
from the SFHR database of Duane Bristow 03-13-2021 19:55:24